At 8:12 AM -0400 4/19/02, Alan Brown wrote: >Given the flagrant behaviour of some packages regarding failure to >report actual error messages(*), this may be the only way out. > >I have tried to contact a user popping excessively on several occasions. >The usual response is "yeah yeah" and then no change in behaviour. > > >(*) Eudora for Macintosh's "That Pesky TCP is acting up again" is less >than helpful, as a for-instance.
Presumably the server would return a proper POP error, such as one defined for this: "-ERR [LOGIN-DELAY]"; see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/pop3-extension-mechanism>. A TCP error would only be reported for connection failures, not explicit POP errors.
